Valentine day memories take me to my school days, when our full batch was asked to stay back after assembly and our principal told us “strict action will be taken against students who were found exchanging roses in school”. First thing we did after entering class room was to exchange roses before our class teacher could enter the room.
Then during college days wearing red or black combination dress, even shoes need to have the combination. Hiding roses in bag giving to the person concerned far from everybody’s eyes. Most important things was to know “What happened to the people who were found celebrating Valentine’s day on TV?”. Couples were beaten up, their face were blacked. It was all violence then. It actually forced couple to celebrate it, than today when the level of resistance has come down.
This was our 1st valentine’s day after wedding. I had not planned for it, y brother in law who asked me “what are you planning to gift your wife on valentine’s day?” . My instant reply was “it’s only for bachelor’s not married couples”. It happened when we were entering a mall. Mall was fully decorated with Valentine ’s Day gift.
All of a sudden my eyes fell on teddy’s decorated at one of shelves. Athira has been asking me to buy her a teddy for sometime, hence decided to buy it for her. Wanted to buy and gift it as surprise but couldn’t do so since it was a big teddy and finding a place to hide it would have been tough task. So gifted it to her in advance. Since it was spontaneous she was too happy about it.
On 13th evening I enquired in my office about any florist shop close by. They guided me but couldn’t find anyone, finally close to my house found a florist shop and got a red rose for Athira. Had hidden it in my bag, so that nobody could see it. 14th morning I gave the rose to her and wished her valentine’s day and started getting ready for office.
The moment I came out of bathroom after taking bath, saw 3 gifts one another with the teddy close to it. Above the gift was a paper with Valentine’s day wishes in it. Didn’t knew how to react to it but was too happy about it. Decided to come from office early today, and spend some time with her. First gift was a hand cream, other was a small idol of “Krishna ji in a jhoola” and the final one was a coffee mug with I Love you engraved on it.
Left office early after finishing the work, wanted to go out for dinner. We were yet to decide where to go when Athira received a call from her friend. She told Athira that they are at jayanagar 4th block. . Athira wanted to meet this friend of her for long time, hence we decided to head towards Jayanagar. Athira was too happy to see her friend after spending close to an hour, we moved to Athira’s favorite food point to have our dinner.
By the time we finished our dinner it was 10, we had 20kms to be covered for reaching home. Finally reached home by 11 and went to bed with sweet memories of the day.
